Ultimate Board Stats Integration into Users Non-VB page!!

This hack will add a ton of new features to your main website.

Version #2 features:

*Users Avatar
*Total Members
*Total Posts
*Total Threads

*Member of the Day (please note that for this hack to work you MIGHT need to have it already installed on your VB. Some people needed it some didnt. If this feature is unimportant to you please delete the CODE located in the file. It is marked.)

*Number of posts since last visit.
*Mini Forum nav Bar for logged in users
*PRIVATE MESSAGE INFORMATION including number of unread messages, new messages and total messages in your INBOX!
*Top Threads Starter
*Top Poster
*Newest Member
*Seperate displays for Logged in Users and guests (guests will see completely different information than Logged in users)
*FAQ and Register links for Guests.
*Login Code for Not logged in Guests or Users
*A completely Template Free Welcome Panel and no hassle script.

This is all done without ANY modifications or template changes. installation of this hack is SIMPLE.

Just upload the boardstat.php file into your server directory. You might to change the Path to your GLOBAL directory if its not in your FORUMS folder.

Currently the Add-on works as a 3 colomn table You can easily change that by opening the boardstat.php file and scrolling down to where it says Begin HTML OUTPUT. You can rearrange the html in any fashion you like.

To get the information to your main website just REQUIRE or use an IFRAME to call the boardstat.php file into your main page.

To make sure this installation is successful and works with no problems, you will need to install the hacks shown in this add-on just as a precaution. Some people are able to just upload the file and go while some need the hacks already installed.

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Support for this hack is VERY limited until the new year. Reason being that im too busy too keep up with this right now.

Any problems seen in this hack, could be resolved by just commenting out or deleting the Member of the Day Feature. If you have this hack installed already then you should be fine. If you dont then it might or might not work.

Also, hacks like these dont work well across seperate domains or subdomains. In this case before the URL to the boardstat.php file works. If the PHP include doesnt work an IFRAME always will work.

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See you guys' next year.

Following SCREEN SHOT of a logged in user

Screen shot of a Guest on your page

[Darren Lewis]

Looks good

Any plans to include who's online info (even just how many people will do, rather than individual names)? I did try Tubedogs hack once but the numbers it gave didn't correlate to the ones on the forum homepage.

Darren.

Why Darren so you can mootch off me again? jk.

I will, i already had something like that done. It used to be on the front page along with whos browsing.. and number on a day all time, things like that. But it lagged the page alot. I need to cut it down a bit so i doesnt do too much lagging of the page loading. But i see you added that avatar thing to your WELCOME PANEL.... Hoped my little endeavor helped you out a bit. hehe. Peace.

[garoboldy]

I cant seem to get your php file to work right.
here is the error I am getting.

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.7:

Invalid SQL: SELECT userid,username
FROM user
WHERE userid<>
AND (usergroupid=5 OR usergroupid=6 OR usergroupid=7 OR usergroupid=2)
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 1
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'AND (usergroupid=5 OR usergroupid=6 OR usergroupid=7 OR usergroupid=2)
' at line 4

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Thursday 12th of September 2002 07:43:03 AM
Script: http://www.evolutionaryconcepts.com/.../boardstat.php
Referer:


it says /forum/forum/boardstat.php but there is no forum/forum
just /forum on my site.
I placed the php file in the vb root directory...and got this...when I put it in my main directory I get a 404 error not found page....

any info will be great!
thanks
:nervous:

[Darren Lewis]

Well, I think Firefly was the one who originally created the avatar hack anyway Ironically I'd already written the release and was about to upload it when I saw you'd already done it

I've got quite a few scripts on my front page so I too don't want to slow things down further. Not sure how much people would use the additional info anyway. Someone's just asked me about the PM stuff for my hack. I'll have a fiddle to see if I can it and the who's online stuff working.

I'd like to get it working on properly on subdomains or even other domains.

Darren.

[joeboo]

Man.. there are so many of these hacks now.. anyways, is there any way to get this to work when your forums and site is on different servers?

Hey Gara... Open the boardstat.php file make the path to your global.php the full path.

Also, i have not installed 2.2.7 because of template problems. This hack might not function properly cause of different code in 2.2.7

But Im a sure its the path to global.php that needs to be changed. So far your the only one whos having troubles, and the only one with 2.2.7. I have given this hack out to about 10 other people.

If that doesnt help you, come back here and let me know. Ill try some more ideas.

Originally posted by joeboo
Man.. there are so many of these hacks now.. anyways, is there any way to get this to work when your forums and site is on different servers?

I still think mines the most feature intensive with hardly no lagtime on the page loads. But i might just be biased to my board hacks.... lol Even though this is only my ACTUAL 2nd ever. hehe.



Anyways, Joe, if you have FTP to the server where the board is then you should be able to use it. Some servers allow it to be done. If you are able to upload this to the forum server. Just make the path to the global.php file a full url. This might or might not work. It worked on my previous server but not my new one.

But Joe if you use an IFRAME it WILL work. If you require it into your page you need to have the paths and urls match. An iframe just opens the page ON the other server. Use an iframe, just like i suggested in Version 1 to you.